“Hineni, hineni, I’m ready my Lord,” Cohen laments on the album’s self-titled track. (“Hineni” is Hebrew for “here I am,” which is how Abraham answered when God commanded that he sacrifice his son Isaac in the Bible’s Old Testament.)

In his review late October, National Public Radio Rock Critic Ken Tucker declares the album is “less a summing up than a living will, complete with gifts for how to negotiate a life for maximum passion.”

Among Cohen’s most famous songs are the ballad “Hallelujah,” “So Long Marianne,””First We Take Manhattan” and “Tower of Song.”

In his home country of Canada, Cohen was inducted into both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2008, he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. During the ceremony, Cohen recited the lyrics of his “Tower of Song.”

Although Cohen brought comfort to many, he dealt with depression since his adolescence. He spent several years in the 1990s living at a mountaintop Zen Buddhist monastery outside of Los Angeles, he told The New Yorker.

“Moving into some periods, which were debilitating, when I found it hard to get off the couch, to periods when I was fully operative but the background noise of anguish still prevailed.” he told the magazine.

Eventually, Cohen left the monastery and returned to music.

In 2004, however, he discovered that his long-time manager, Kelley Lynch, had stolen millions from his retirement fund. Lynch was ordered to pay $9.5 million, and she was later sentenced to 18 months in jail for harassment, according to The Guardian.

Cohen went back on tour to offset his financial difficulties, a move that proved to be a major success. He went on to play nearly 400 shows around the globe between 2008 and 2013, before his physical health began to deteriorate, Rolling Stone reports.

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Despite being “confined to barracks,” as he described his own situation to The New Yorker, Cohen managed to find the energy for not one, but two more albums. “Popular Problems” was released in 2014.

“At times I was very worried about his health, and the only thing that buoyed his spirits was the work itself,” Cohen’s son Adam told Rolling Stone about the recent album project. “And given the incredible and acute discomfort he was suffering from in his largely immobilized state, [creating this album] was a great distraction.”

“Well Marianne, it’s come to this time when we are really so old and our bodies are falling apart and I think I will follow you very soon,” Cohen wrote. “Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine. And you know that I’ve always loved you for your beauty and your wisdom, but I don’t need to say anything more about that because you know all about that. But now, I just want to wish you a very good journey. Goodbye old friend. Endless love, see you down the road.”

The musician is survived by his son, Adam Cohen, and daughter, Lorca Cohen.

Canadian singer Leonard Cohen acknowledges applauses before the concert "A Tribute to Leonard Cohen" at the Jovellanos Theatre in Gijon, on Oct. 19, 2011. Cohen will receive the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters from Spain's Crown Prince Felipe during a ceremony on Oct. 21, 2011 in Oviedo.

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Canadian singer Leonard Cohen acknowledges applauses at the Jovellanos Theatre before the concert "A Tribute to Leonard Cohen" in Gijon, on Oct. 19, 2011. Cohen will receive the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters from Spain's Crown Prince Felipe during a ceremony on Oct. 21, 2011 in Oviedo.

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Leonard Cohen performs in concert at the Louisville Palace on March 30, 2013 in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Leonard Cohen performs in support of his Live in London release at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California.

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Canadian singer Leonard Cohen performs during the Nice Jazz Festival, on July 22, 2008, in Nice, southern France.

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Honoree Leonard Cohen during the 2012 Awards for Lyrics of Literary Excellence at The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library And Museum on Feb. 26, 2012, in Boston, Massachusetts.

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UNITED STATES - MARCH 10: WALDORF ASTORIA HOTEL Photo of Leonard COHEN, Portrait of Leonard Cohen in the press room after his induction in to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Photo by GNA/Redferns)

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Singer/songwriter/poet Leonard Cohen attends the Los Angeles premiere of the film "Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man" on June 24, 2006 at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre during the LA Film Festival in Los Angeles, California.

CANADA - MAY 20: Hopping and headstands: Leonard Cohen was recently in Granada to film a video for Small Viennese Waltz, his offering on Poets in New York, an alburm celebrating Federico Garcia Lorca. (Photo by Ron Bull/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

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NEW YORK - JULY 18: Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist Leonard Cohen at a photo shoot on July 18, 1988 in New York City. (Photo by Waring Abbott/Getty Images)